Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----were all introduced after discussion here. However, the real problem is the supply of houses. I remind Deputy Munster again that in the so-called boom years we were building 90,000 houses a year, a rate of building that collapsed to fewer than 9,000 per year.

That must be rebuilt, which does not happen overnight.

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